The "Made in China 2025" (MIC 2025) plan, published by the China State Council in May of 2015, has demonstrated the country's ambition to enhance its fabless IC design industry in terms of market share and technology capability. Major ...
Tags: IC design, mobile device, PC
The production value of Taiwan's IC design industry is expected to increase 6.7% sequentially in the second quarter of 2016, thanks to a pick-up in handset demand, according to Digitimes Research. Demand in China's smartphone market is ...
Tags: smartphone, IC
IC orders for PCs have remained slow thus far in 2015, whereas orders for handsets and consumer electronics devices are picking up prior to the third quarter peak season, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. PC-related ...
China's government policies for supporting the local IC design industry have put less emphasis on intervention measures such as offering tax breaks, providing direct financial support, and making purchases of domestic products, while ...
Tags: IC Design, IC Industry
With China- and Taiwan-based suppliers eager to expand their presence, prices of fingerprint sensors are likely to fall below US$5 in 2015, according to industry sources. Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics, FocalTech Systems, Egis ...
Tags: Fingerprint Sensor, Sensor
Taiwan-based IC design companies have seen their order visibility for September remain unclear, predicting third-quarter sales will grow within a range of 10% sequentially, according to industry sources. Recent reports of slow sales of ...
Tags: IC Design Firms, IC vendors
The top 25 IC design companies in China grew an average of 30%, reports DigiTimes, with State Microelectronics leading the way on 170% growth. Galaxycore and Spreadtrum came next with growth in the 60s of per cent, followed by China's ...
Tags: IC design, State Microelectronics, China